“Knowing others is intelligence;
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength;
Mastering yourself is true power.
-Tzu
Heck, I've always been the master of my own domain, I never thought it would lead me to such great heights.”
“I can't say I didn't get a fair shake in this game - Pink honourably recognizing the long dry spell left me rusty on the steps per turn (pick up your damn cards). Then the favour of silence - Silver not dropping hints on Red holding Europe with nary a border defence; as well as Ivory's narrow focus on Pink South America at the same time. But you have to have the rolls to make it happen. It happened, but too slowly versus a Pink depleted by the Ivory. Then cards don't work when you're rolling copious 1, 2 and 3s against the Silver's original thirty. Ah well, good practice for 2021.”
“That creep (Jason) can roll, and that sandwich was good. I tried to play the percentages, but just as Homer shouldn't pinch hit for Strawberry, sometimes attacking percentages don't hold up. I shall try to take fortune's wheel turning over on me with the proper philosophical outlook, as taught to me in Geoffrey Chaucer's translation of "The Consolation of Philosophy" by Boethius. Nothin's easy. Things may have taken a better turn for me had I remembered Metallica's "Disposable Heroes" instead of trying to aggress to the plaintive strains of "Heroes" by David Bowie.”
